I am a science enthusiast who also enjoy discovering cultures and people all over the world.
In my website you will find information about my research topics in computer science such as image processing, machine learning, affective computing; etc.
You can also find some resources to the teachings I gave at University (C#, data mining, ...) and the scientific papers I published.
Some of my hobbies are composing and playing music, traveling and taking pictures.

About me

I am invited researcher at Osaka Prefecture University, Senior Researcher at Keio Media Design and associate professor at Lab-STICC research laboratory and ENIB.
From 2014 to 2019, I was a research assistant professor at Osaka Prefecture University in the intelligent media processing group which is supervised by Professor Koichi Kise.
I was involved in a national CREST project and working with researchers from Tohoku, Kyushu and KEIO Universities until 2016.
We use devices such as cameras, eye-trackers, EoGs or smart glasses in order to get information from the reading activity. From 2017 we started a new national CREST project with Todai and Kobe University about experiential supplements.
The aim is to create new tools for sharing experiences, and especially for improving learning and education.

From 2012 to 2014, I was at the head of Research & Development at Gestform, a digitizing company of 340 people. I worked on many projects such as handwriting recognition, image classification, segmentation and recognition.

I am interested about signal analysis, image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining.
During my PhD.,I worked 3 years at LaBRI, the computer science laboratory of Bordeaux with Jean-Philippe Domenger and Nicholas Journet.

Research and publications

The list of my publications is available on Google Scholar or the dblp website.
I am doing research about image analysis, processing and understanding; machine learning and artificial intelligence; eye tracking and physiological sensors and emotion aware technology.

Mangas analysis

My research group in Osaka Prefecture University is also working on mangas analysis. Analyzing drawings is a very challenging task due to their variety. We proposed a new method to analyze the story telling based on genre classification with a deep learning approach.
I also proposed a method to generate dynamic image visualization based on eye tracking, automatic animation of characters based on deep learning, and preliminary research about physiological signal analysis (heartbeat, sweating, skin temperature, etc.) while reading mangas.

Image analysis and machine learning

During my PhD at In Bordeaux university and Gestform digitizing company, I explored new techniques for image processing, analysis and comparison. I also studied machine learning, data mining and information retrieval. I used both image and text information for document image classification and indexation.
I worked on many subjects such as : handwriting recognition based on Artificial Neural Network,
document image classification based on bags of visual words, detection of check-box location and state,
identity card robust and real-time retrieval, incremental learning with user interaction... I developed this techniques in C#, C++, R and applied them in industrial context.

Awards and grants

I was honored to win one best paper award at CIFED 2012.
In 2012, I got a young researcher grant to stay 3 weeks in the laboratory of my choice from LaBRI.
In 2013 I won the best student paper award at DRR 2013 for my works about semi-structured document image matching and recognition .
In 2015 I got Kakenhi young researcher grant (~4 millions JPY / ~30,000 EUR) to support my research about reading analysis and smart documents.
In 2017 I got the outstanding quality paper reviews award as reviewer of ICDAR 2017. I also got the outstanding service award for serving as local arrangement chair at ICDAR 2017.

Hobbies

Music composition

I like to play guitar (acoustic and electric) and piano. I enjoy jazz, blues and rock music. I use essentialy a Guibson SG with a Marshall amplifier. I also have a Wah-Wah and a Big Muff footswitches.
You can find my first compositions on Soundcloud and the music I like on my itunes profile.

Traveling

For work or for leisure, I enjoy to visit many countries and cities to meet people all over the world such as in San Francisco, Kyoto, Siem Reap, Amsterdam, New York, Salzburg, Bagan, Venezia, Zaragosa...
You can find more of my best shots on Instagram